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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Artif Intell Med. 2013 Jun 2;58(3):155–163. doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2013.04.008

Table 6.

Performance of confidence methods for breast cancer (78 samples: 44 class 1, 34 class 2) a.

LEVEL N POS ACC SEN SPC PPV NPV
Overall 77.7(0.7) 43.5(0.2) 67.8(2.9) 60.5(4.4) 73.5(3.1) 63.7(3.6) 70.8(2.6)
Method 1
Highest 16.2(3.7) 25.8(8.9) 76.6(8.7) 72.2(25.0) 78.5(5.5) 51.9(14.9) 89.1(11.5)
Intermediate 48.4(6.0) 49.4(4.4) 67.9(4.2) 61.5(6.1) 74.1(4.3) 69.7(5.5) 66.4(5.9)
Lowest 13.1(4.3) 43.8(10.5) 58.7(11.4) 54.2(19.8) 60.8(19.7) 52.1(15.6) 63.7(14.6)
Method 2
Highest 44.9(3.1) 42.4(3.9) 71.3(4.1) 62.1(7.9) 78.1(4.9) 67.58.4) 73.8(4.0)
Intermediate 16.9(3.9) 46.0(8.3) 66.8(9.7) 63.9(15.6) 69.8(14.0) 64.3(14.3) 69.4(14.0)
Lowest 16.0(2.8) 43.8(12.6) 60.0(12.5) 52.2(19.2) 65.5(15.3) 53.1(22.5) 64.1(13.0)
a

Please refer to footnote for Table 1.